Three people came to office hours on Wednesday, and all of them had questions about homework 2 question 4. This involved throwing a rock from the top of a cliff and solving for the initial and final velocity vectors, time taken to hit the ground, and the speed as it hits the ground. I think this question was more difficult than some others because there were no values given, meaning you had to solve for all of these symbolically.
On Thursday, someone came for help with Physics II. The question involved a PV diagram, which I did not remember too well. There was also another Physics I UTA there, and together we were able to reach a solution with the student.
On Friday, there were four people who came for help with Physics I. They all had similar questions involving one problem where you need to solve for the acceleration of a runner, and another problem where you had to find the starting height of an acorn given that it passed a meter stick in exactly one second. The problems seem pretty difficult at first, but after going through each of the steps needed to find the solution the students seemed to understand them a lot better.
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